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Lettera Patent No. 73,410, dated January 14,1868.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, JonN P. TROXELL, of Hancock, in the county of Washington, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sausage-Studers; and I do hereby declare the following 'to be a correct description of the same, sulcient to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appcrtains to fully understand its construction and operation, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which-L Figure 1 is a side elevation of my sausagc-stul`cr, with part of the frame broken out, and

Figure 2 is an end view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several gures. l

. In all the sausage-stning machines now in use, the operation of filling intestines or casings has to be sus pended for .the purpose of filling the stuffing-cylinder with sausage-meat. The object of my invention isto obviate this necessity, and to ll the casings by one continuous operation, without stoppage; and its nature consists in so operating the stuffing-pistons or bars of two cylinders that one piston or bar is withdrawn from one cylinder, whilst-the other piston or bar forces the meat through the other cylinder, thus allowinglone cylinder to be filled and provided with a casing while the other one is making sausage. p

A,-in the drawings, represents the sides, and B and B' the top 'and bottom of a sausage-stufiing machine. C C' are two stuffing-cylinders, of common construction, with tubes c c', hinged at I: to thehottom, B'. Two shafts, D and D', have their bearings in the sides A. The shaft D isl provided with a small cog-wheel, E, gearing with a larger wheel, F, on the shaft D', to which latter are also secured small cog-wheels G G', operating rackbars H H. The rack-bar H is provided with a tongue, h, moving'iin agroove, g, on the under side of a beam or frame, z', secured to the top,'B, of the frame, and the rack-bar H' `has a similar tongue, lt', which moves in the groove g' in the upper side of the beam or frame z', on the bottom, B. Thus, when the shaft D is rotated by means of the handle a, one of the rack-bars will -bepushed into the cylinder, wliilo the other is withdrawn.` The rack-bar H' is secured to the lower end of a. diskV or piston, I',and the bar II to the upper end of a disk or piston I, the disks I I' operating in the cylinders C C' respectively. These cylinders are held in a lateral position by means of straps or bands e, one of their ends secured to standards f, and the other ends provided with holes to fit ou pins e', on the standards f', so that when the straps c' are loosened `from the standards f', the cylinders C C can beta1-ned to a vertical position.

The operation of themachine is very simple. The rack-bars may be set in such a manner that one piston` .will bejust clear of the rear end ofthe cylinder when the other has performed two-thirds of its work, or in any desired proportions. In g. 1, the piston I has `performed nearly the whole of its work, the cylinder C' having been tipped'np as soon as its piston, I', permitted it. While oneof the pistons performs the last third of its work, the other cylinder is filled with meat, its tube provided with a casing, and the cylinder returned to a lateral position and secured by the strap. By this time the other cylinder has been emptied, and by reversing the motion of the handle a, the vcylinder just fitted is made to make sausage, and so en.

It will be easily understood that, by any well-known means, the motion of the rack-bar may, at the end of its stroke, be automatically reversed, so that the direction of turning the handle (t need not he changed.

Having thus described'my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The sausage-smiling machine herein described, consisting of the hinged cylinders C C', rack-bars Il H', provided with vdisks-I I', situated as described, and operated by wheels E F G G', so that while one cylinder is filling the casing, the other cylinder may be filled with meat, and preparodto fill its casing as soon as the first cylinder has done its work, and vice versa, substantially as described.

JOHN P. TROXELL.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH HAnnsoN, J. O. H. CUNNINGHAM. 

